Here’s a question CNN didn’t raise during tonight’s “debate” between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton: Maybe the two should marry one another!
Watching the so-called debate was more like watching two people on a first date. They each were soooooooo polite and bent over backwards to avoid hurting the other’s feelings.
My first impression was: These two [...]

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We are down to the wire…for both the Republicans and Democrats as we near SuperTuesday (Hollywood is already working on a sequel, SuperWednesday) when just about half of the country will be helping select a presidential nominee for each major party.
Today, the stars were aligning for Sen. McCain with both “America’s Mayor”–Mr. 9/11 himself, Rudy [...]

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The Associated Press is reporting as of this writing that Sen. John Edwards is pulling out of the race, leaving the Democratic field to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
The problem with this is–he’s reportedly doing it even before just about half the nation gets to vote for a nominee February 5th–so called “Super Tuesday.”
There is something very [...]

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Media coverage of the 2008 presidential primaries and caucuses is a disgrace. And that goes for many political blogs as well as more mainstream media–in particular,CNN, which seems as if it has an exclusive contract to promote Barack Obama. Maybe CNN figures he’d make a pretty good co-anchor alongside Anderson Cooper one day should he [...]

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Sen. Barack Obama has seemingly done the impossible: He has gotten the endorsement of John F. Kennedy himself to be the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in 2008.
Initially, Obama wheeled out the likes of Ted Kennedy and the daughter of the slain president for their endorsement.
But then, not to be outdone,Hillary Clinton announced she had the [...]

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The results of the South Carolina primary should be troubling to all: While Barack Obama did, indeed, defeat Hillary Clinton there, he did so capturing roughly 80 percent of the black vote but only a quarter of the white vote!
This is the strongest indication yet that this presidential race is shaping up as one of [...]

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